scheme so grand and glorious, that doubtless it reaches far beyond the narrow theatre of our world, and will to all eternity have its happy effects in the spacious regions of light; where Jesus is seen in the body of his glory, and known to be exalted to universal dominion, on account of his obedient and benevolent death.

CHAPTER XI.

CHRIST'S DEATH THE GROUND OF REDEMPTION, AS IT IS A MEAN OF SANCTIFICATION.

172. NOR have I assumed this principle without scripture-evidence. It is the sense of our Lord and his apostles, that the sacrifice he offered to God for the remission of sins, or to make atonement for sin, is a mean of our sanctification. Jesus, as made perfect through obedient sufferings, hath the character of the Sanctifier, & ayıalwv, Heb. ii. 10, 11, It became God, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth, Christ, and they that are sanctified [Gr. the sanctifier, and the sanctified] are both of one Father,

namely God; who graciously appointed Christ to be our Sanctifier, and granted us the inestimable benefit of being sanctified by him. Heb. x. 10, By the which will we are sanctified, through the offering of Christ once for all.Ver. 26-29, He that sinneth wilfully [contiuues finally impenitent in sin] hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unclean thing. Note; sanctified in those texts doth imply, or suppose, the remission of sin; but doubtless it also extends to the purifying the heart, and directing the conduct; as Heb. xiii. 12, 13, Jesus that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us therefore, that we may be sanctified by his blood, go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach; i. e. in imitation of him, enduring any sufferings, or indignities, rather than sin against God, or be unfaithful to any obligations of duty to God or man. Heb. ix. 13, 14, For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the ceremonially unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, and rendering a person fit to be taken into the congregation; how

much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the Eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Heb. i. 3,-by [the sacrifice of] himself he purged our sins. 1 John i. 7, If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and [for] the blood of Christ, cleanseth us from all sin, or unrighteousness, ver. 9. Rev. i. 5, Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto his God and Father, [hath raised us to the highest degree of dignity, service, and sanctity.] Rev. vii. 14, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes [moral habits] and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Heb. xii. 24, Christ's blood is the blood of sprinkling and it is our great privilege, that, by our christian profession, we are come unto it. 1 Pet. i. 2, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanetification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus; or unto that obedience, which the blood of Jesus, sprinkled upon our consciences, is intended to produce.

[Note; purging, cleansing, washing, sprinkling doubtless do imply pardon : but in the known scriptural use, they also signify sanctification; or freeing the mind from the pollution and power of sin. WASH. Psal. li. 2, 7.-lxxiii. 13. Prov. xxx. 12. Isa. i. 16.—iv. 4. Jer. iv. 14. Ezek. xxiv. 13. 11. Eph. v. 26. PURGE. Isa. iv. 4. xi. 35. 1 Cor. v. 7. xv. 2, &c. CLEANSE. Psal. cxix. 9. Mat. xxiii. 26. 2 Cor. vii. 1. Jam. iv. 8. SPRINKLE. Isa. lii. 15. Ezek. xxxvi. .25. Heb. x. 22.

John xiii. 8.

Tit. iii. 5.

1 Cor. vi.

Heb. x. 22.

Ezek. xxiv. 3. Dan.

2 Tim. ii. 21. John

173. Rom. vi. 3,-So many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death.-Ver. 6,-Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 1 Pet. ii. 24, Who his own self bare, or took away, our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead unto sin, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed of your spiritual maladies. Tit. ii. 14, Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all

iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

174. More particularly, the sufferings, death, and blood of Christ sanctify as an example to us. Rom. vi. 10, For in that he died, he died unto sin once.—Ver. 11, Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead-unto sin. 1 Pet. ii. 21, Christ suf fered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps.-iv. 1, Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us [for our sins, chap. iii. 18,] in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind that was in him. For [as he died unto sin, Rom. vi. 10, or resisted unto blood, striving against sin, Heb. xii. 4, and gained a victory over it: So] he that hath suf fered in the flesh [that he may keep himself from sin] hath ceased from sin, [or is delivered from the dominion of it]. Rom. vi. 7, That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God in universal holiness. Phil. iii. 10, That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death.